Friends are like shoes???

Okay, so I am not sure if this is gonna be rude, or what, but I'm working on an analogy here and i think it works pretty good, but it might be insulting, but i don't mean it to be...if you are a friend, new, old, a bestie, or not, you are important to me in some way....but this has been in my head since yesterday and I gotta get it out.
Thinking about friends in general, I've come to the conclusion that they are similar to shoes, essential to daily function, and in a variety of styles. And just like shoes, friends are either supportive, or flimsy (like that shoe that breaks at the perfect time, usually when you have no access to another pair)

So, sometimes, you need new shoes. And so you get a new pair of shoes, and they are kinda uncomfortable, they might rub the wrong way, or something might not just be right about them, so you toss them to the back of your closet and only wear them out of necessity. Eventually, those new shoes start to mold to your foot, and over time (maybe days, weeks, months or years..in my case, it takes awhile) they become a part of your daily wear. You become comfortable in your new shoes, and even feel good wearing them out to major events, your new shoes are fantastic...but they are still new...

Then you have your old shoes, and if you know me at all, you know my old shoes (okay, my flops, hardly a shoe) are my most important, nearest and dearest to my heart. My old shoes are my feel good shoes, my I'm sad and my feet need some love shoes. These shoes have been through it all, they might be beat up, have holes, be worn out on a side, missing some laces, secured only by duct tape, but they are still hangin on, and even though you know that they might have seen better days, you keep them in your closet, because maybe one day, you will need that specific pair to bail you out...maybe they perfectly match an off color shirt, and you will never EVER be able to find shoes in that color again...but then there is the shoe you always try to fix because you love it so much, but the bitch keeps breaking on you, and you try everything in your power to make it work, and it just doesn't, and it breaks your heat, but you have to chuck it, because it it doesn't deliver, its gotta go.

I also love the shoes you forgot you had, that you maybe threw in your closet after wearing them for like an entire season non stop, and then you find them again, and they just fit. So you decide to rock em for a little.

Personally, I love my slippers, they really last forever because you really don't wear them out too often, they are not exposed to the harsh elements of life. They are warm, they make you feel good, and you usually only have one pair (okay, i have two, summer and winter ones!) but slippers have seen you on your good days and your bad, when you are happy and free spirited or when you are sad and refuse to change out of your sweat pants. Slippers. They just make things better.

So, make of this what you will. Don't over analyze. I will never tell who is in what type of shoe, it would probably take me more time to actually figure it out. Really, at times, you might be a new pair of heels, or an old flip flop, depends on my mood, day, situation, and so on...this is the pure bliss of me free writing, i can just put it all out there!!!